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The main part of the difficulty is that awareness of this
Principle comes neither by knowing nor by the Intellection that
discovers the Intellectual Beings but by a presence overpassing
all knowledge. In knowing, soul or mind abandons its unity; it
cannot remain a simplex: knowing is taking account of things;
that accounting is multiple; the mind, thus plunging into number
and multiplicity, departs from unity.
Our way then takes us beyond knowing; there may be no wandering
from unity; knowing and knowable must all be left aside; every
object of thought, even the highest, we must pass by, for all
that is good is later than This and derives from This as from the
sun all the light of the day.
"Not to be told; not to be written": in our writing and telling
we are but urging towards it: out of discussion we call to
vision: to those desiring to see, we point the path; our teaching
is of the road and the travelling; the seeing must be the very
act of one that has made this choice.
There are those that have not attained to see. The soul has not
come to know the splendour There; it has not felt and clutched to
itself that love-passion of vision known to lover come to rest
where he loves. Or struck perhaps by that authentic light, all
the soul lit by the nearness gained, we have gone weighted from
beneath; the vision is frustrate; we should go without burden and
we go carrying that which can but keep us back; we are not yet
made over into unity.
From none is that Principle absent and yet from all: present, it
remains absent save to those fit to receive, disciplined into
some accordance, able to touch it closely by their likeness and
by that kindred power within themselves through which, remaining
as it was when it came to them from the Supreme, they are enabled
to see in so far as God may at all be seen.
Failure to attain may be due to such impediment or to lack of the
guiding thought that establishes trust; impediment we must charge
against ourselves and strive by entire renunciation to become
emancipate; where there is distrust for lack of convincing
reason, further considerations may be applied:
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